I would encourage people who are interested in this game to step up and make the changes they want to see happen. Petition to become a moderator and, once empowered, go through the development log and notes for the game to break out all of the different versions of the game, tracking changes between them; that should take a few hundred hours as each version will have to be manually downloaded as a backup from Steam, loaded, and tested. Once that is done, one or more white paper can be put together which explain the findings and creates options that the community can vote on to determine which categories are adopted, as well as how they are separated and structured. That would likely require setting up and managing a Discord, which would also have to be staffed and moderated, as well as a system created to manage the polling and results. I look forward to seeing the people that want this putting in the effort to bring it about.
I hope its more active too! I have some new WRs that have been pending approval for 10 months! There may actually be other WRs by others that have not been approved too.
The Reddit Dungreed community has been working over the last few months to provide hacks to the game. While the original hacks were egregious and over the top and would not be usable in speedruns there was always the chance someone would create a "tame" version to give themselves the edge in runs.
Now there is a save editor. This means that someone could edit items they have and then perform a "legitimate" run.
Perhaps we should modify the rules for runs so that before the dungeon is entered the runner has to show:
- How many Aegis they have at the shrine.
- Their training point allocation at Coblovina.
- Their character stat screen.
- Hover over any items in their inventory to show stats.
In this way the character stats and items can be verified for modification before the run begins. This should catch even "subtle" cheaters.
This was a fun category to run! I also agree that the new title "All Rooms%" is a better description. To me "100%" means you have to clear all rooms of enemies which you don't want to do if you can avoid it. If I can just poke into a room and back out I will!